Police Quotes: Honoring the Protectors of Our Society

"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it"

"If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll"

Steven Adler, Musician

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared"

Caryl Chessman, Criminal

"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music"

John Sebastian, Musician

"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised"

Amy Lee, Musician

"How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities"

David E. Price, Politician

"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"A functioning police state needs no police"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment"

Earl Warren, Judge

"The police must obey the law while enforcing the law"

Earl Warren, Judge

"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement"

Barack Obama, President

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

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